Picture-hanger.



No. 866,270. A PATENTED SEPT; 17, 1907.

E. FLEMING.

PICTURE HANGER. APPLICATION IILED NOV. 2'1. 190s.

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EDWARD FLEMING, OF BRIDGEPORT, OHIO.

PICTURE-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1907.

Application filed November 27, 1906. Serial No. 345,377.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD FLEMING, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Bridgeport, county of Belmont, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Picture-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention. relates to new and useful improvements in picture hangers, and more particularly to a hanger for picture frames, unframed pictures, mounted photographs, cards, and the like; and it consists in the particular construction, arrangement and combination of parts which will hereinafter be fully described.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap and durable device by means of which pictures,

photographs, cards, and the like, may be supported or.

suspended from a wall in a tilted or inclined position.

A further object is to provide a picture hanger having an adjustable brace wherebythe angle of inclination of the supported article may be readily adjusted.

in describing the invention in detail, reference is herein had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a front elevation of the invention showing the brace in depending position; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the invention, showing a card supported thereby, and illustrating a modified formation of brace; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same with the card removed.

Referring to said drawings, in which like referencenumerals designate like parts throughout the several views-1-1 indicate inclined supporting members of wire which are joined at their upper ends to constitute a twisted body 2 with an integral hook or loop 3 at its upper end for engagement with a nail 4 or other support on a wall. The lower end of each member 1 is bent to form an integral loop-like hook 5 for engaging the lower corner of a photograph, card, or the like. The hooks 5 lie substantially parallel to said inclined members so that their bases stand at an angle to a horizontal plane when the device is in normal position. A loop 10 is formed at the point where the members 1 unite, and in said loop is held the end of a brace 7 which, at its free end, is upwardly bent and carries an integral hook 8 adapted for clamping engagement with the upper edge of the article held by the device.

As is obvious, the card or photograph 9 is mounted in the device with its lower corners in the hooks 5, one

member of each hook engaging the lower edge of the card or photograph while the opposite member of each engages a side edge, or end, of said card or photograph. The brace 7 is then adjusted with its hook 8 in engageinent with the upper edge of said card or photograph.

The brace holds or braces the card or photograph in an inclined position when the device is hung on the wall with the loop 3 over a nail 4.

It will be noted that the brace may be formed in one piece, as shown at 7 in Figs. 2 and 3, and that a loop 10 may be formed in the twisted wire body instead of in the inclined members, as is also shown in the last mentioned figures. v

The brace 7 is preferably made adjustable in length, as shown in Fig. 1, to admit of -the ready regulation of the angle of inclination of the article supported. For this purpose the brace is made in two sections 11. and 12, the former being directly connected to the loop 10 at one end, and the latter bearing the hook 8 on its free end. The said sections 11 and 12 are connected by turning the free ends of each at right angles to the bodies thereof and turning the extreme end of each section over the body of its companion section, as shown at 13.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a device of the character described, a pair of divergent supporting; members joined and twisted together at their upper ends to constitute a body portion, a looplike hook formed integral with each supporting member at the lower end thereof, said hook being substantially parallel to its member and having its base at an angle to a horizontal plane, supporting means carried by said body portion, and an adjustable brace for holding an article mounted in said hooks at an angle of inclination to the wall from which said body portion is suspended, said brace consisting of two wire members, each having its end looped about its companion member, one member being connected at its opposite end to said body portion and the other member having its opposite end bent to form a hook for engaging the article mounted in the first mentioned hooks, the members composing said brace being slidable in relation to each other andadapted to be twisted one on the other to bind them in adjusted relation.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses. EDWARD FLEMING.

Witnesses:

Ron'r. F. DILWORTH, H, E. DUNLAP. 

